Kill Me Now - London

Kill Me Now - London ★★★★★ The Stage Review
★★★★ The Times
★★★★ The Independent
★★★★ Evening Standard
★★★★ The Stage
★★★★ Libby Purves, Theatre Cat
★★★★ WhatsonStage
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European Première of the Brad Fraser play 'Kill Me Now', directed by Braham Murray OBE. Jamil Jivanjee in association with Park Theatre presents the European Première of
Kill Me Now, a heartbreakingly funny play by international award winning Canadian playwright Brad Fraser. Jake Sturdy, a once-successful writer, cares for his disabled and hormonal teenage son, Joey. He is also having an affair wi

th his former student, Robyn. But when Jake is struck by an unexpected disaster, he is forced to confront some difficult questions about who’s really looking after who. Funny and moving, Kill Me Now is an ode to the triumph of the human spirit.

There is a teeny tiny number of tickets left for Kill Me Now this weekend. Do you have yours? Book Now for our final thr...
27/03/2015

There is a teeny tiny number of tickets left for Kill Me Now this weekend. Do you have yours?

Book Now for our final three performances!

Located less than thirty seconds from Finsbury Park station, Park Theatre is only minutes from the West End.

22/03/2015

We are now into the last week of Kill Me Now!!

Don't miss Greg Wise and co deliver a powerful, moving, thought provoking performance.

Must End Sunday!

Did you miss Radio 4 Midweek's wonderful interview with Greg Wise this morning? Don't forget to catch up here!
18/03/2015

Did you miss Radio 4 Midweek's wonderful interview with Greg Wise this morning?

Don't forget to catch up here!

Libby Purves meets cartoonist Gerald Scarfe and actor Greg Wise.

17/03/2015

Tonight we are SOLD OUT!

Blink and you'll miss it, only two weeks left. Book Now!!

Click quick!: http://goo.gl/j63DJO

Are you still umm-ing and ahh-ing about booking tickets to see Kill Me Now? STILL need convincing? Hear what those who a...
17/03/2015

Are you still umm-ing and ahh-ing about booking tickets to see Kill Me Now? STILL need convincing? Hear what those who attended on Press Night had to say.

Featuring Anita Harris, Ken Cranham, Ali Bastian and Lorraine Chase.

Hear from some of the people who attended the Kill Me Now Press Night at the Park Theatre including Anita Harris, Ken Cranham, Ali Bastian and Lorraine Chase...

Our Official Trailer!!
10/03/2015

Our Official Trailer!!

Bittersweet, fast-paced, ricocheting between the comedy and tragedy of disability, Kill Me Now is a funny and moving play about how we care for the people we...

So what would the critics pay to see ??
07/03/2015

So what would the critics pay to see ??

03/03/2015

WATCH NOW: Greg Wise talks wife Emma Thompson, tax avoidance and treading the boards: http://bit.ly/1GLXQYV

03/03/2015

Greg Wise has made his return to theatre for the first time in 17 years in a play that left wife, Emma Thompson, sobbing in her seat. Driven by the love of working, the fear of a new role, and a script that blew him away he's back on stage in the European premier of the play Kill Me Now. Kill Me…

Greg Wise is being featured on This Morning today at 10:50!! Drop everything and get the telly on!!
03/03/2015

Greg Wise is being featured on This Morning today at 10:50!!
Drop everything and get the telly on!!

After finding love on the set of 'Sense and Sensibility', Greg Wise reveals why his new starring role in the premier of the play 'Kill Me Now' left his wife, Emma Thompson, sobbing in her seat!

★★★★ "A pitch perfect European premiere"
27/02/2015

★★★★ "A pitch perfect European premiere"

Canadian dramatist Brad Fraser has never been a respecter of the pieties. His story of the relationship between Joey, a severely physically disabled 17 year old, and his widower father Jake, who has given up a promising writing career to look after him, packs all the more powerful an emotional punc…

26/02/2015

From our production of Kill Me Now with Samuel Hoeksema and Steven Patterson.

★★★★ from The Evening Standard!"Greg Wise plays the role with noble sensitivity."http://goo.gl/2LPDnh
26/02/2015

★★★★ from The Evening Standard!

"Greg Wise plays the role with noble sensitivity."

http://goo.gl/2LPDnh

Kill Me Now is Canadian playwright Brad Fraser’s sixth collaboration with director Braham Murray, and it’s an intimate and unsentimental portrait of a family confronting disability. Fraser repeatedly jolts us out of our comfort zone but punctuates the shocks with the kind of laughs that make an audi…

★★★★ from The Times!"Braham Murray’s ensemble are all outstanding, including Greg Wise who is unstarry, beautifully natu...
25/02/2015

★★★★ from The Times!

"Braham Murray’s ensemble are all outstanding, including Greg Wise who is unstarry, beautifully natural and very moving as Joey’s widowed father."

http://goo.gl/9qn0fS

This drama about a dope-smoking teenager with a severe disability is a modern tragedy with acutely distressing moments

★★★★ from The Arts Desk"Gripping as well as moving… Every one of the actors is superb."http://goo.gl/pVeViK
25/02/2015

★★★★ from The Arts Desk

"Gripping as well as moving… Every one of the actors is superb."

http://goo.gl/pVeViK

The big news was that dashing Greg Wise was returning to the London stage after an absence of 17 years. Still best remembered as the handsome cad Willoughby in the film of Sense and Sensibility - now 20 years old - he appears in the intimate Park 200 auditorium as a middle-aged, care-worn father, ob…

★★★★  from WhatsOnStage"A remarkable achievement."http://goo.gl/ATZz9l
25/02/2015

★★★★ from WhatsOnStage

"A remarkable achievement."

http://goo.gl/ATZz9l

Greg Wise stars in Brad Fraser's black comedy about fatherhood

★★★★  from Libby Purves the Theatre Cat!"Brilliantly shocking, yet deeply kind. Oliver Gomm delivers the performance of ...
25/02/2015

★★★★ from Libby Purves the Theatre Cat!

"Brilliantly shocking, yet deeply kind. Oliver Gomm delivers the performance of his life."

http://goo.gl/ffMUNq

GRIMLY COMIC, NOBLY TOUGH For a young actor to play a severely disabled, facially twisted, speech-impaired young man in an electric wheelchair cannot - in this week of Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar - fail...

★★★★★ from Stage Review!!"Funny and brutal and honest. But it is also moving, deeply emotional, and ultimately harrowing...
25/02/2015

★★★★★ from Stage Review!!

"Funny and brutal and honest. But it is also moving, deeply emotional, and ultimately harrowing."

http://goo.gl/EAEZ2S

Actors Greg Wise & Oliver Gomm give powerful & complex performances in Brad Fraser's Kill Me Now which opened at Finsbury's Park Theatre tonight. Review.

★★★★ from The Stage!"A fine cast, including the welcome return of Greg Wise as the father and a very committed performan...
25/02/2015

★★★★ from The Stage!

"A fine cast, including the welcome return of Greg Wise as the father and a very committed performance from Oliver Gomm as the son that charts their relationship with a heartbreaking poignancy."

http://goo.gl/C1b7Jy

Theatre is all about seeing the world through someone else’s eyes, and here Brad Fraser opens ours to the plight of a

First preview tonight. Here are some pictures from rehearsals.
19/02/2015

First preview tonight. Here are some pictures from rehearsals.

Getting very exciting now!!
27/01/2015

Getting very exciting now!!

Exclusive first look at Greg Wise in Brad Fraser's KILL ME NOW.

19 February - 29 March

Tickets: bit.ly/1C7BNeA

We also have a great article with Greg Wise in Friday's edition of the Evening Standard! If you happened to miss it, don...
18/01/2015

We also have a great article with Greg Wise in Friday's edition of the Evening Standard! If you happened to miss it, don't forget to click below and read it online!!

Actor Greg Wise has ditched playing charismatic cads to return to the London stage for the first time in 17 years as a broken-down middle-aged man.

It's been a very exciting busy week here!! Our cast has been announced! Greg Wise will take the role of Jake, joined by ...
18/01/2015

It's been a very exciting busy week here!! Our cast has been announced! Greg Wise will take the role of Jake, joined by Oliver Gomm as Joey, Charlotte Harwood as Twyla, Jack McMullen as Rowdy and Anna Wilson-Jones as Robyn!!
See more at http://parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/kill-me-now !

Greg Wise will lead the cast of Brad Fraser's Kill Me Now at the Park Theatre next month. Wise is joined by Oliver Gomm, Charlotte Harwood, Jack McMullen a

Tickets for Kill Me Now are now on sale! Click below to book for a heartwarming evening this cold winter!
06/01/2015

Tickets for Kill Me Now are now on sale! Click below to book for a heartwarming evening this cold winter!

Located less than thirty seconds from Finsbury Park station, Park Theatre is only minutes from the West End.

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